It appears that some new owners of the brand new 2011 MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt have been facing an annoying issue. It appears that if the laptop is heavily under stress than it’ll randomly crash. Here’s what a user said:

“Received a new 15″ 2.2/6750M MBP last week and have been having some issues with the machine locking up under load.

For example if I boot up a VM using Fusion the temperature will spike up above 90 degrees and the machine will lock up most of the time. The machine appears locked (cannot move the mouse at all and keyboard is unresponsive). I can SSH into the machine still and it still is running however. This is one example but it will freeze under a number of circumstances where the CPU/GPU load is very high (rendering, DJ Software, compiling so far in my travels).”

Thus far speculations are saying that the issue is related to the graphics driver or power management, and it seems the issue is reliably reproducible. Apple is reportedly aware of the issue, but no reliable solution has been provided. They’re probably waiting for Intel’s response.

SOURCE via Mac Rumors